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Offline Triffic Bar

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« on: October 04, 2007, 03:28:09 pm »
Hi new to this forum, I accidently came across a post from 2005 talking about Tiffen Bars and what happened to them, I can't find the post again so have created a new topic.
 

The Tiffen Bar was a great success story and liked by many including myself until one unhappy day in the 70's when a young lady in the UK was reported to have bitten into a bar and found the skull of a mouses head inside the chocolate, the publicity was so intensive that it wasnt long before they were withdrawn never to be seen again except a few years back in a classic collection.
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« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2007, 04:11:24 pm »
I don't believe this.
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« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2007, 04:21:43 pm »
It seems it happened in Birmingham so it must be true! Wink
 

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Yes and the Cadbury Tiffin bar one is also true. I think it was in the late 60s or early 70s, they withdrew Tiffin bars completely from the UK market because someone bit into one and found a little squashed mouse head. I suppose the implication of not withdrawing the entire  product was that the rest of Mr Mouse's body was potentially going to turn up in another Tiffin bar. I think they continued to sell Tiffins abroad, but not in this country because the PR damage had been done. Someone else might know, but didn't they reintroduce Tiffins recently?
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« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2007, 04:52:13 pm »
Well bizarre things do happen in Birmingham...
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« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2007, 06:54:46 pm »
But wasn't Tiffin just exactly like the woderful Country Style that came out in the 1970s and consisted of chocolate, raisin and bsicuit pieces?
 

These lasted quite a while and came in a kind of red and while gingham wrapper with a country-style themed TV campaign.
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« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2007, 09:12:45 am »
mmm Country Styles were wonderful.  I had a Tiffin a couple of years ago (from Ireland I think) and loved it.  Do you remember the mouse incident though Oldspice?  I don't.
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« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2007, 02:36:49 pm »
It just screams 'urban myth' to me.
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« Reply #7 on: October 05, 2007, 05:01:21 pm »
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mmm Country Styles were wonderful.  I had a Tiffin a couple of years ago (from Ireland I think) and loved it.  Do you remember the mouse incident though Oldspice?  I don't.

 

No, I don't remember that at all. In fact, I'm not sure i remember Tiffin in their original form. Were they mostly sold from chocolate machines??
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« Reply #8 on: October 05, 2007, 06:03:12 pm »
This shows my age, but I can remember getting Tiffin from chocolate machines! The ones at New Street had Tiffin, Mint Crisp and Nut Crisp - the latter two of which were impossible to buy anywhere else! I miss such oddities...
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« Reply #9 on: October 06, 2007, 12:30:33 pm »
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This shows my age, but I can remember getting Tiffin from chocolate machines! The ones at New Street had Tiffin, Mint Crisp and Nut Crisp - the latter two of which were impossible to buy anywhere else! I miss such oddities...

 

Nestle Dairy Crunch and the Ovaltine bar were two others almost unique to train station machines.
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« Reply #10 on: October 06, 2007, 01:37:03 pm »
Mmmm - Ovaltine Bars. They were delishhhhhhh.
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« Reply #11 on: October 06, 2007, 01:39:18 pm »
I never got to try an Ovaltine bar - I'm sure I'd have loved them Disapprove
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« Reply #12 on: October 06, 2007, 08:59:51 pm »
They do an Ovaltine chocolate drink. I'm sure it won't have the texture but what about its taste in comparison to the old bar?
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« Reply #13 on: October 06, 2007, 10:37:24 pm »
The drink is much too sweet. The chocolate bar was quite creamy, chocolatey and malty with small malt pieces in it. It was divine.
 

 

Many, many years ago, in Switzerland, I remember buying cartons of chilled Ovaline drink that were absolutely wonderful. It was not too sweet but really malty and just so delicious but it was criminally expensive - like everything in Switzerland.  I think i was 12 at the time.  i remember that when I left the UK, Maggie May was no 1 in the charts.
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« Reply #14 on: June 08, 2009, 11:15:09 pm »
Sorry to drag up an old thread - but guess what I found: http://foodstufffinds.blogspot.com/2009/05/cadburys-dairy-milk-tiffin.html
Not available in the UK, but can be bought in Ireland or through TheIrishShop.co.uk (which is where I got mine).
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